Unable to format paragraphs in MS Word 2003

[Guest]

I am not sure if this has to do with my MS Office setting but when I try to
format the paragraphs, MS Word is not responding. I check my Options under
Tools but cannot find anything relevant to this issue with paragraph setting.
Any ideas what could have caused this, and how to fix it? THANKS in advance.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Windows, if your default or currently selected printer is None or is
a network printer that you are not connected to, then change the printer
to one that Word can see.

 

[Guest]

My computer is connected to 2 network printers, one of which is set as the
default printer. I just printed a test page and it printed fine...but I
still can't format paragraphs in a Word document.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you working in Draft mode in Normal view?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I am not sure if this has to do with my MS Office setting but when I try to
format the paragraphs, MS Word is not responding. I check my Options under
Tools but cannot find anything relevant to this issue with paragraph setting.
Any ideas what could have caused this, and how to fix it? THANKS in

advance.

 

[Guest]

No, I work in Print Layout view.

Are you working in Draft mode in Normal view?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.


advance.

 

[Guest]

I think I found a partial answer to the issue. There are certain functions
that I use a lot so I have created 3 macros involving paragraph formatting (I
will show you the codes later). Today I deleted the macros to see if it
would solve the problem and it did. After I re-created the macros, the same
problem occurred. My problem is that I know how to create macros but I don't
know how to edit them. Here are my macros (the 1st macro is for setting 0
point spacing after a line; the 2nd macro is for setting spacing after a line
to 5 point, and the 3rd macro is for setting a paragraph font to Tahoma 9 pt,
single line, 0 pt before line, and 4 pt after line):

Sub lineSpace_0pt()
'
' lineSpace_0pt Macro
' Macro recorded 9/20/2007 by CA
'
With Selection.ParagraphFormat
.LeftIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.RightIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.SpaceBefore = 0
.SpaceBeforeAuto = False
.SpaceAfter = 0
.SpaceAfterAuto = False
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceSingle
.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
.WidowControl = True
.KeepWithNext = False
.KeepTogether = False
.PageBreakBefore = False
.NoLineNumber = False
.Hyphenation = True
.FirstLineIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.OutlineLevel = wdOutlineLevelBodyText
.CharacterUnitLeftIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitRightIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitFirstLineIndent = 0
.LineUnitBefore = 0
.LineUnitAfter = 0
End With
End Sub
Sub lineSpace_05pt()
'
' lineSpace_05pt Macro
' Macro recorded 9/20/2007 by CA
'
With Selection.ParagraphFormat
.LeftIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.RightIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.SpaceBefore = 0
.SpaceBeforeAuto = False
.SpaceAfter = 5
.SpaceAfterAuto = False
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceSingle
.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
.WidowControl = True
.KeepWithNext = False
.KeepTogether = False
.PageBreakBefore = False
.NoLineNumber = False
.Hyphenation = True
.FirstLineIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.OutlineLevel = wdOutlineLevelBodyText
.CharacterUnitLeftIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitRightIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitFirstLineIndent = 0
.LineUnitBefore = 0
.LineUnitAfter = 0
End With
End Sub
Sub formatParagraph()
'
' formatParagraph Macro
' Macro recorded 9/20/2007 by CA
'
With Selection.Font
.Name = "Tahoma"
.Size = 9
.Bold = False
.Italic = False
.Underline = wdUnderlineNone
.UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic
.StrikeThrough = False
.DoubleStrikeThrough = False
.Outline = False
.Emboss = False
.Shadow = False
.Hidden = False
.SmallCaps = False
.AllCaps = False
.Color = wdColorAutomatic
.Engrave = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.Spacing = 0
.Scaling = 100
.Position = 0
.Kerning = 0
.Animation = wdAnimationNone
End With
With Selection.ParagraphFormat
.LeftIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.RightIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.SpaceBefore = 0
.SpaceBeforeAuto = False
.SpaceAfter = 4
.SpaceAfterAuto = False
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceSingle
.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
.WidowControl = True
.KeepWithNext = False
.KeepTogether = False
.PageBreakBefore = False
.NoLineNumber = False
.Hyphenation = True
.FirstLineIndent = InchesToPoints(0)
.OutlineLevel = wdOutlineLevelBodyText
.CharacterUnitLeftIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitRightIndent = 0
.CharacterUnitFirstLineIndent = 0
.LineUnitBefore = 0
.LineUnitAfter = 0
End With
End Sub